Maynooth University Spanish and Latin American Studies

8 November

14:00-16:00: John Hume Boardroom.
Roundtable on the US Presidential Elections Co-organised by the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Sociology and Spanish and Latin American Studies, with speakers:

• Colleen Dube, CEO UVersity.
• Professor María Pramaggiore (Maynooth University Media Studies)
• Dr Jamie Saris (Maynooth University Department of Anthropology)
• Dr Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez (University of New Mexico)

16:00-18:00 JHL6.
Screening of the Paraguayan documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al natural (2016), with an introduction and discussion with its producer Fabián Bozzolo Canal 13, Paraguay. 

9 November

Panel 1 Transnational Cinema
9:00-11:00: Iontas Seminar Room.

• Fiona Clancy, University College Cork: ‘Trauma and Violence in New Argentine Cinema: Towards a Reimagining of Community.’
• Dr Mirna Vohnsen, University College Dublin: ‘The Father-Son Conflict in the New Jewish-Argentine Cinema.
• Dr Paula Gilligan, IADT: ‘A Lost Cause? Mexico, the U.S. and the South of the Border Western.’
• Professor María Pramaggiore, Maynooth University: 'The Politics of Reproduction in La casa muda and Silent House.’ 

Coffee Break

Panel 2: Screening Gender and Sexuality
11:30-13:00: Iontas Seminar Room

• Alan Smyth, Maynooth University: ‘Mía: Transgendering the Villa.’
• Dr Melissa Hidalgo, University of California San Diego: ‘We Look to Los Angeles: Morrissey as Queer Style Muse in Whittier Boulevard (2015) and Bruising for Besos (2016).’
• Dr Jean-Philippe Imbert, Dublin City University: ‘The Niño Fidencio and his Brothers in Light.’

Lunch 13:00 to 14.30

Keynote Speakers and Reading: 
Renehan Hall, 14:30 to 17:30

• Dr Deborah Shaw, Reader in Film Studies, University of Portsmouth: 'Central American/Mexican migration films and human rights: Reading La jaula de oro/The Golden Dream with political theory.’
• Dr Niamh Thornton, Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool: 'Kate del Castillo is Connected: Stardom, Celebrity, and Narco Narratives.’
• Dr Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, University of New Mexico, whose work has been published in Spain, Latin America, Italy and the United States, will read from his fictional work on the US-Mexican borderlands.